1830s South Carolina Slave Plantation Contract- "New Cotton Gin"

Handwritten contract, 3pp, measuring 7.75" x 9.5", dated November 3, 1830, South Carolina. A contract detailing a transaction between one Thomas Little and John Campbell, in which Little is to use part of the plantation owned by Campbell for a total of nine thousand and six hundred dollars. Includes the usage of a new cotton gin on the planation which is not for sale. Accompanied by a separate but related handwritten invoice from John Campbell for the purchase of lumber. Light toning and flattened letter folds throughout, with some tearing at edges. Overall, very good.

Reads in part, with punctuation added for clarity:

"Thomas Little engages to pay John Campbell nine thousand six hundred dollars... In consideration of the above John Campbell engages to make on or before the first of January or April next a good and sufficient title to a certain plantation or tract or land situated on the west side of the Pee Dee River in Anson County North Carolina…

The above parties agree that John Campbell is to cultivate all the cotton land of the said plantation... for the year ending in December 1831. Said Campbell [is] to have the privilege of using the land to pick out his cotton crops in the winter of 1832 and the use of the cribs till his corn crop can be conveniently removed. Use of the gin, house, ect till the cotton crop is removed. The new cotton gin is not sold."

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